Lab 07: Ethics II and
Reliability and Validity of Scales
How to evaluate a measure
Overview of today’s lab activities
Ethics II & Reliability and Validity
This week has two major areas of focus - a deeper dive on the Ethics Application Portal, including information that will be required, and to recap Psychometric Reliability and Validity.
By the end of the session, you will have:
This week is focussed on the following overarching learning objectives
Two main parts of the lab this week
Ethics II
Familiarise yourself with the important Ethics resources available on the VLE. These include general Research guidelines, but some specific to online research too (should you plan to work online only).
Successfully logging in to the Goldsmiths Research Ethics portal and reviewing all the information you will be required to submit in support of your ethics application. By being aware of this, you can offset any problems.
Any errors will result in an application being returned and a resubmission will be required.
Please see the worksheet on the VLE for detailed guidance
Reliability and Validity
The Worksheet this week has a comprehensive overview of 4 Validities and 4 Reliabilities, as well as ways to accentuate the quality of research tools.
This material is designed to poiint you towards more focussed assessments of research tools than you may have been considering up to this point.
It is not usually good enough to say “this tool lacks validity” - you need to go much deeper and argue your assessment.